The Disinformation Fraud: How America's Most Powerful Institutions Joined Forces to Crush Speech & Silence Dissent, with Jacob Siegel
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🗓️ 5 May 2023
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| 0:00.0 | So, Good evening. It's Thursday, May 4th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update. |
| 0:20.4 | Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM Eastern |
| 0:24.2 | exclusively here on rumble the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight we |
| 0:29.2 | devote the entire show to examining one of the most important and consequential hoaxes in our current |
| 0:35.4 | politics not just in the United States but in the wider democratic world namely |
| 0:39.5 | the sprawling multi-headed extremely well-funded scam that was created in the wake of the |
| 0:45.5 | 2016 election that calls itself the anti-disinformation industry. We have devoted |
| 0:51.7 | several shows and I've written several articles to |
| 0:54.8 | investigating the genesis of this industry who was funding it and the |
| 0:58.7 | rotted ways in which it functions. In September 2021, the still somewhat heterodox |
| 1:03.5 | German Harpers produced one of the most comprehensive |
| 1:06.5 | examinations of this fraudulent industry |
| 1:08.9 | and an article by Joseph Bernstein entitled Bad News, |
| 1:12.4 | selling the story of disinformation. |
| 1:15.0 | But the single most important and comprehensive investigation of this fraudulent and |
| 1:18.7 | deeply menacing industry was published several weeks ago by the journal Tablet entitled A Guide to Understanding |
| 1:25.8 | The Hokes of the Century. |
| 1:28.4 | In it, the writer Jacob Segal devoted 13,000 extremely well-researched words to describe in his words, quote, a sprawling |
| 1:35.9 | Leviathan with tentacles reaching into both the public and private sector, which the |
| 1:40.6 | government uses to direct a quote quote whole of society effort that aims to seize total control over the internet and achieve nothing less than the eradication of human error. |
| 1:51.0 | We will examine this industry, dissect the key elements of Siegel's groundbreaking |
| 1:55.0 | article, and then in our interview segments speak with him about its most important |
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